More Than 60 Indies — These 13 Stood Out at The Mix Summer Game 2026

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More Than 60 Indies — These 13 Stood Out at The Mix Summer Game 2026

By Alex Nitschke on June 2, 2026 – 08:53 EDT

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On June 2, The Mix Summer Game Showcase 2026 hit viewers with more than 60 indie game trailers. And since you may not feel like sitting through a packed 105-minute stream, here are 13 highlights worth keeping an eye on.

To me, The Mix Summer Game Showcase feels a little like an indie version of a corporate stream in the State of Play mold: polished to a shine, very few rough edges, lots of instant-emotion buttons, and slick one-liners that feel engineered rather than discovered. Still, the event is clearly useful. It gives selected indie games a bigger spotlight, and that matters in a market where even genuinely interesting projects can disappear under avalanches of junk, shovelware and algorithmic noise.

But let’s be honest: "indie" is not a seal of quality by itself. The craft on display during The Mix Summer Game Showcase 2026 was solid, sometimes even impressive. Plenty of the games, though, leaned on settings, mechanics or visual tricks I’ve seen a hundred times before.

So I went through the 63-game lineup and cut it down to a much tighter 13. Thirteen games that, to me, had a little more going on than the other 50—whether in terms of game design, atmosphere, art direction or plain old weirdness. At the end of the article, you’ll also find the full list of every game shown during the showcase, with Steam links where available.

Oh My Doug!

oh my doug

  • Genre: 2D action-adventure / Metroidvania
  • Developer: Odd Men In Studios
  • Platforms: PC
  • Development status: In development
  • Price: TBA

In Oh My Doug!, you end up inside the hand-drawn, thoroughly disgusting body of a man named Doug. Though honestly, inside or outside, the guy looks pretty gross either way. 🙂 Two mismatched characters, strongly reminiscent of ’90s cartoon chaos à la Ren & Stimpy, fight their way through body biomes, bizarre enemies and animated madness. This Metroidvania might end up giving us a very literal definition of body horror.

Canvas City

canvas city

  • Genre: Turn-based tactics RPG
  • Developer: Disc 2 Games
  • Platforms: PC
  • Development status: In development (Release date: To be announced)
  • Price: TBA

There are plenty of turn-based tactics RPGs, but Canvas City puts the genre on skates. A rebellious crew of street artists fights back against a city that controls creativity, licenses art and monitors public space. So basically, your average city. Combat is not just about dealing damage, either. It is also about movement, style, positioning and bringing energy back to a sterile urban machine. Style over substance? My gut says: no.

Raji: Kaliyuga

raji kaliyuga

  • Genre: Action-adventure / RPG
  • Developer: Nodding Heads Games
  • Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
  • Development status: In development (Release date: Coming soon)
  • Price: TBA

Raji: Kaliyuga continues the story of Raji and dives deeper into a world of Indian mythology, gods and cosmic threats. Six years after the great war, prophecy, fate and divine wrath begin to blur as Raji and Darsh face the looming age of Kaliyuga. It looks like a fast-paced action-adventure, but what impressed me most is the world itself, which looks very much worth exploring.

The Dark West

the dark west

  • Genre: Occult western ARPG
  • Developer: Black Hand
  • Platforms: PC
  • Development status: In development (Early Access planned)
  • Price: TBA

The Dark West combines—who could have guessed—grim western vibes with action RPG mechanics. Instead of burying you under endless loot trash, the game seems to focus on more deliberate rewards, meaningful choices and occult abilities. Naturally, the cowboy protagonist looks like a shady bastard too, letting lead and dark magic do most of the talking. In combat, positioning, timing, reload management, movement and aggression all seem to matter.

Reka

reka

  • Genre: Exploration / base-building / adventure
  • Developer: Emberstorm Entertainment
  • Platforms: PC
  • Development status: Released in Early Access (Release date: September 12, 2024)
  • Price: Regional pricing / see Steam

In Reka, you become the apprentice of the "great" Baba Yaga and travel through a Slavic-inspired fairy-tale world in a walking, chicken-legged house. The game mixes exploration, gathering, building and choice-driven encounters with humans and spirits. It is cozy, but with a nicely twisted witchy streak. I’ve played Reka myself, and I’d recommend taking a look if you like morbid fantasy worlds. If you have a soft spot for witchcraft or witches in general, I’d call it a must-buy.

Wild Blue Skies

wild blue skies

  • Genre: On-rails shooter / arcade flight combat
  • Developer: Chuhai Labs, VITEI Backroom
  • Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
  • Development status: In development (Release date: August 13, 2026)
  • Price: TBA

Wild Blue Skies looks like a very direct love letter to classic on-rails shooters such as Star Fox 64. At times, it almost looks exactly like it, too. So yes, you fly through colorful anime-style dogfights, dodge projectiles and, of course, lock onto enemies. Instead of standalone levels, there seems to be a connected campaign with hidden routes and missions to discover.

Echograph

echograph

  • Genre: Survival horror / adventure
  • Developer: Pappy's Pipe Dream
  • Platforms: PC
  • Development status: In development (Release date: To be announced)
  • Price: TBA

Echograph presents itself as a dark, old-school survival horror adventure built around memory, perception and a deeply eerie atmosphere. Resident Evil and Silent Hill may be part of the DNA, but above all, Echograph seems to take its cues from Fatal Frame. Yes, that means you wave a camera around and take fatal portraits of ghosts. So despite its retro look, this seems more like psychological horror than a boring jump-scare parade.

MegaGum

megagum

  • Genre: 3D action-platformer / action-adventure
  • Developer: N-Zone
  • Platforms: PC
  • Development status: In development (Release date: 2027)
  • Price: TBA

A colorful 3D action-platformer with a bubblegum aesthetic, elastic movement and cartoon chaos—that’s not something I see every day. In MegaGum, heroine Uja explores a mysterious gum factory to uncover its secrets. She also has to watch out for its owner, though that character remains mostly under wraps for now. Uja has plenty of abilities, including freezing the environment, walking on walls, gliding and melee combat. The developers promise new mechanics on every floor, plus asymmetrical co-op.

Kumarn: The Wandering Spirit

kumarn the wandering spirit

  • Genre: Horror adventure
  • Developer: WereBuff Studio
  • Platforms: PC
  • Development status: In development (Release date: Coming soon)
  • Price: TBA

Kumarn: The Wandering Spirit is an atmospheric horror adventure inspired by Thai folklore. If you know the genre, it feels a little like the unlikely child of Home Sweet Home and Little Nightmares—and I mean that in a good way. You play a childlike spirit torn from its shrine, wandering through cursed places, ghost stories and forgotten temples with a zebra companion. Which, yes, makes the whole thing even stranger. 🙂

UN:Me

unme

  • Genre: Psychological adventure
  • Developer: historia Inc.
  • Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2
  • Development status: In development (Release date: 2026)
  • Price: TBA

So, do you like the nurses in the image above? Makes you feel like you’re in good hands, right? The screenshot comes from UN:Me, a psychological adventure about a girl whose body is home to four souls. Playing as her, you move through a disturbing mental labyrinth, talk to those souls and decide which one gets to stay. The game’s description sounds a lot like a therapy session gone horribly wrong—so don’t expect light fare here.

Edenfall: Legacy of the First Wardens

edenfall legacy of the first wardens

  • Genre: Action-adventure / RPG
  • Developer: Everflux Games
  • Platforms: PC
  • Development status: In development (Release date: Q4 2026)
  • Price: TBA

At first glance, the fantasy action-adventure Edenfall: Legacy of the First Wardens gives off some serious Zelda charm. Heroine Venya looks a bit like Link’s secret sister, and the airy sky islands clearly wink at Tears of the Kingdom. Still, Edenfall has its own thing going on. Venya jumps, runs and glides through a linear world as a human, wolf, raccoon or raven, switching freely between forms and combining their abilities in combat.

Ballgame

ballgame

  • Genre: Physics platformer / sports-action
  • Developer: Human Computer
  • Platforms: PC
  • Development status: In development (Release date: To be announced)
  • Price: TBA

It looks simple, but the very first trailer already makes it look like a ridiculous amount of fun. Ballgame is a physics platformer that squeezes golf, pinball and skill-based play into one very bouncy package. You fling, roll and smack a golf ball through tricky courses where timing, angles and chaos seem far more important than athletic dignity. Multiple modes, including time trials, aim to squeeze as much mileage as possible out of the core idea.

Well Dweller

well dweller

  • Genre: Metroidvania / action-adventure
  • Developer: Kyle Thompson
  • Platforms: PC
  • Development status: In development (Release date: 2026)
  • Price: TBA

Well Dweller is a dark fairy-tale Metroidvania about Glimmer, a small bird with a matchstick that can also double as a club. In a corrupted kingdom full of strange characters, he is supposed to burn the evil queen and save his family. I have to say, the visuals alone floored me. The world, enemies and effects look genuinely fantastic. Go watch the trailer on the linked Steam page.

All 63 games from The Mix Summer Game Showcase 2026

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